CUPS: FC5 and older can't see printers shared by FC6

[Manuel Monteiro]

FC3 did have cups printing... it's available at least since redhat 9!
I still have one old machine running RH9 sharing some printers which are
seen by all computers (FC3, FC5, FC6 and MacOS X).

I'm replacing this machine with a new one running FC6.
All computers are in the same network and as cups' browsing is enabled by
default nothing should be necessary.

Manuel

> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 16:08 +0000, Manuel Monteiro wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just set up a Fedora Core 6 i386 computer and added several
> printers to
> > cups.
> > Other computers with FC6 and MacOS X 10.3 are able to see all shared
> printer
> > but computers with FC5 and FC3 can't see them.
> >
> > Any clues?
> Well lets us start with FC3. It is my memory that FC3 did not use cups
> printing.
> If I am wrong on that then the question is, were the printers set up
> using system-config-printer and you clicked on sharing. That will not
> work with cups printer sharing in my experience.
> 
> How did you set up the FC5 machine to use the shared printers. If all
> the machines are on the same LAN then you should have done nothing. In
> particular you should not have filled in the reference to the server in
> the client.conf file. If you tried to configure the printers using
> system-config-printer, unconfigure them locally.
> If the printers are on different LANs then you must identify the server
> in client.conf.
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